Our opinion: The Assembly plans to pass a package of bills to increase transparency in government. Why is the Legislature exempt from such openness? The state Assembly plans to mark Sunshine Week with …

Some 2,400 years ago, Plato wrote about two kinds of good. There are things that are good for their own sake and things that are good for their consequences. For example, “health” embodies both kinds …

As your editorial on the toll heroin is wreaking on our communities (“Battling heroin’s scourge,” Dec. 4) points out, there is no simple solution. That includes your statement about “availability and …

Our opinion: In dealing with Ebola, exaggerating the threat or creating an information vacuum can be as dangerous as a poor public health response. It would be a mistake to underestimate the threat of …